What we're reading
What we're reading: Nancy Campbell, Tana French & Nick Drnaso
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Lian Hingee is reading The Wych Elm by Tana French (available November)
I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of Tana French’s upcoming book The Wych Elm, a great big brick of a novel that stands outside her wonderful Dublin Murder Squad series.
Toby Hennessy lives a charmed life: he’s well off…
What we're reading: April Genevieve Tucholke, J.M. Coetzee & Clémentine Beauvais
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Paul Goodman is reading Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Emotions are raw this week after taking a recommendation from a customer and finally reading the copy of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace that had been collecting dust on my shelf.
I was lured into what seemed like a story of campus scandal, of protagonist David Lurie’s abuse of…
What we're reading: Dervla McTiernan, Anna Burns & Adam Liaw
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Paul Barr is listening to Lanterns by Ryan Ayers
Former classical guitarist Ryan Ayers has picked up a steel string guitar to great effect on Lanterns. Ayers has a gift for melody and unlike a lot of the current crop of acoustic players, his music has echoes of the Windham Hill sound rather than…
What we're reading: Dervla McTiernan, Karl Ove Knausgaard & April Genevieve Tucholke
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bronte Coates is reading The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke (available October)
Frey is the leader of a band of boneless mercies – women who roam the land and are hired to bring a merciful death to the sick and the old. It is gruelling work and Frey, raised on the heroic sagas of…
What we're reading: Meg Medina, Ibi Zoboi & Brian K. Vaughan
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Paul Barr is listening to Deran by Bombino
Tuareg musician Bombino has a new album out and it’s a beauty. Similar in style to other desert blues bands like Tinariwen, Bombino has a heavier guitar sound and likes to riff and rock out a bit more than most. This album features songs about love and…
What we're reading: Ottessa Moshfegh, Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Paul Goodman is reading Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Seasons Quartet
To whet my appetite for Knausgaard’s finale to My Struggle, I have been dipping into his Seasons Quartet – the series of essays he wrote for his (then) unborn daughter. Ranging from reflections on the changing seasons and painting a stunning picture of Scandinavia throughout…
What we're reading: Weike Wang, Michel Houellebecq & Nick Drnaso
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Paul Goodmam is reading Submission by Michel Houellebecq
I’ve just finished Michel Houellebecq’s controversial Submission and found that, as with all illicit fiction, a simple reading of the text takes you past the scandal to a novel that reads more like a cry for help than an attack. Houellebecq’s oeuvre wrestles time and again with…
What we're reading: Liane Moriarty, Sarah Selecky & Rachael Brown
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bronte Coates is reading Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty (available 18 September)
I was extremely excited last week to get my hands on an early copy of Liane Moriarty’s forthcoming novel. A group of strangers attend a wellness retreat where they find themselves exposed to some unusual treatment methods. To say much more would…
What we're reading: Liane Moriarty, Shirley Jackson & Min Jin Lee
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Lian Hingee is reading We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson is one of those writers that everyone tells you that you must read. A master of American Gothic, she was reclusive, agoraphobic and obsessed with witchcraft. She’s probably best known for her short stories (especially ‘The Lottery’), but her…
What we're reading: Nick Drnaso, Pat Barker & Sayaka Murata
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bronte Coates is reading Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina made literary history a few weeks ago when it became the first graphic novel to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. As a comic fan, it feels like a long overdue achievement, though I definitely think it’s a deserving pick. An…
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